# Double Portrait of the Painter Frans Snyders and his Wife [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DYCK, Sir Anthony van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 83 x 110 cm ## Commentary Double Portrait of the Painter Frans Snyders and his Wife c. 1621 Oil on canvas, 83 x 110 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel Anthony van Dyck was not only celebrated throughout Europe for his portraits of persons of rank, but was also highly regarded by his colleagues. Evidence of this are the portraits commissioned from him by artists, like this double portrait of Frans Snyders, a painter of animals and still-lifes, and his wife Margaretha de Vos. The depiction of both spouses on a single panel makes it possible to portray a more intimate relationship, and this was the format that Anthony van Dyck tended to prefer, especially for his fellow artists. The joined hands, which originally stood for the promise of marriage, are here a sign of marital fidelity and mutual affection. ## Related artworks - [Abraham and Isaac]() - [An Apostle]() - [An Apostle with Folded Hands]() - [An Aristocratic Genoese]() - [Charles I, King of England at the Hunt]() - [Charles I of England and Henrietta of France]() - [Charles I on Horseback]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Cornelis van der Geest]() - [Crowning with Thorns]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()